RTIViewer Download

RTIViewer allows you to view and explore Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) files at very high resolutions (Polynomial Texture Maps, Hemispherical Harmonics Map, and Multi-view RTI). You can view image files stored on your local file system and remote files through HTTP.

To download, click the links in red font in the table below.

RTIViewer Version 1.0.2 Apple/Mac logo Intel Macs
RTIViewer Version 1.0.2 Windows logo Win32
RTIViewer User Guide 1.0.2 (PDF) Acrobat PDF logo Note: the User Guide is also contained in the software download. Updated versions may be available on this page in the future. The User Guide includes installation instructions.
Example Files symbol for example files Ancient Papyrus.zip (6 MB) Ancient Papyrus from the Bancroft Library

Rock Art Petroglyph.zip (4.8 MB) Legend Rock State Park in Wyoming
License GNU license icon This software is available under the Gnu General Public License version 3. If you wish to receive a copy of the source code, please send email to info@c-h-i.org.

Please Donate

RTIViewer is available as open source software. Please consider making a donation to support our work.

Acknowledgments

Note: Please see the RTIViewer User Guide for more complete acknowledgments.

This tool, designed for cultural heritage and natural science application, was primarily developed by the Italian National Research Council's (CNR) Institute for Information Science and Technology's (ISTI) Visual Computing Laboratory (http://vcg.isti.cnr.it). The work was financed by Cultural Heritage Imaging (http://culturalheritageimaging.org) with majority funding from the US Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) and National Leadership Grant Program (award number LG-25-06-010706). RTIViewer also contains significant software and design contributions from the University of California at Santa Cruz, the Universities do Minho in Portugal, Tom Malzbender of HP Labs, and Cultural Heritage Imaging.